How do governments' discursive credit-claiming and blame-deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systema...

This article addresses a critical issue in evidence-informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It di...

This article examines the trade-offs embedded in the European Union's digital policymaking, focusing on the tensions between fundamental rights, security, and economic competitiveness. Using a trilem....

This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second-order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraugh...

Has digitalization changed policy-making dynamics at the European Union (EU) level? To investigate this issue, this article presents a scoping review of the literature on EU digital policy-making. Wh...

How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short-term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? O...

This article examines the fire and rescue services sector in Sweden in the period 1986–2021, and explains the timing of bureaucratic reforms using the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF). In this study,...

How do citizens participate in interactions with street-level bureaucrats? We systematically reviewed 50 studies and identified a repertoire of citizens' attitudes and behaviors, ranging from complia...

This paper explores the integration of gender mainstreaming in urban food policies (UFPs) through three Spanish case studies: Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza. While UFPs are pivotal for addressing ....

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